Blizzard loves putting little easter eggs and pop culture references in World of Warcraft, from Austin Powers (Mr. Bigglesworth) to Zelda (It's Dangerous to Go Alone) . This series of guides takes a look at all the cleverly-named items that are references to pop culture!

Since there's so many item references, we've broken it up into two guides. This guide covers the "pop" of pop culture--video games, movies, television, and other celebrities.

There are many more references and tributes outside the scope of this guide--items named after players, NPCs, achievements, and quests. If you like these types of posts, we'll consider doing more on references.

Wowhead Editorials

We've been wanting to try out editorials on Wowhead for a while, and we're excited to publish our first one today! If you like it, we'll consider doing more.

Holiday Updates

As our guide comments show, Wowhead users feel passionate about holidays, so the timing seemed right to talk about why holiday updates are important, especially in light of the lack of updates in Mists of Pandaria.

Players are always so excited by new holiday vanity items, but regret that there's not more to do in Mists of Pandaria. Between account-wide changes letting people finish holidays faster and the lack of updates, big or small, players long for excitement associated with past holidays.

There would have been so many opportunities for holiday development in MoP too--like Pandaren-themed Brewfest content, or even a completely new holiday, as we joked about on April Fools with Earth Week and the Angler's Deep Sea Dive[/u

As the snow falls outside of Ironforge and Orgrimmar, the Wowhead team is taking a moment to reflect how great 2013 has been to us. From news of an exciting expansion to the dramatic conclusion of Mists of Pandaria, 2013 has been a good year to be the leading World of Warcraft database!

To celebrate the year's end and this year's Feast of Winter Veil, we've teamed up with the awesome folks at WoW TCG Loot to give you guys some awesome mounts and pets for the holidays.

How to Win

To be entered to win, tell us your favorite part of 2013 in the comments.

Tell us what your greatest accomplishment was in-game or in the real world--we want to hear how amazing 2013 was as we hope for an even better 2014!

The Prizes

We have so many prizes to give out thanks to WoW TCG Loot--it's hard to keep track! We've also thrown in a couple of our own from the Blizzard store to give you guys even more prizes to win!

The holiday season is upon us, which means it's not only time for our Winter Veil guide and holiday giveaway, but also more Noxy art! Every year Noxy creates a new holiday wallpaper for Wowhead, and this year she's imaging how all the faction leaders are celebrating after the Siege of Orgrimmar. (Check out past wallpapers here!)

2013 was an innovative year for Wowhead as we released a lot of creative features to keep up with the changing game--like Wowhead Sounds, the Battle Pet Team Calculator, visual search results, and collection tracking--and we have even more in store for 2014!

We couldn't have done this without your continued support and the entire staff thanks you for visiting and being part of the Wowhead tradition.

The Wowhead staff periodically reviews sweet gaming peripherals, and with the recent launch of our Sound Database, it seems fitting that we've got the SteelSeries Siberia v2 to review today! Be sure to check out our sounds database post as well--we've got a Moonkin Hatchling giveaway going on to celebrate.

The SteelSeries Siberia v2 is the worthy successor to the original SteelSeries Siberia headset, which is highly regarded and revolutionized some headset features. This headset lives up to its legacy with a product that's surprisingly comfortable and stylish, not to mention it delivers high-quality sound.